A16
East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, September 7, 2021
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Shoplifting sister shows
no remorse for actions
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I’m a 28-year-old mother
my parents recently retired and moved from
of two. My teenaged adopted sister steals
Virginia to Georgia to be close to our family
makeup from stores. It sometimes happens
after our son — their first grandchild —
when we are together, but I never catch her
was born. The move down here was a huge
doing it. She has told me she feels no remorse
undertaking for them. It included selling
about stealing the items.
their home in Virginia and building
My parents and I have lectured
a new one here in Georgia with the
her time after time. She’s now claim-
assumption that in their old age they
ing her friends give her makeup they
would never have to move again.
don’t like. I’m exasperated because
The problem is, my husband and
she just doesn’t seem to get it. Would
I are considering a move to a differ-
it be wrong of me to tip off the secu-
ent state to pursue career opportuni-
rity guard on our next shopping trip?
ties for the betterment of our family.
I want her to learn a lesson before it’s
I feel awful because it will mean my
Jeanne
too late. Yet, it could result in juve-
parents may have to move again. We
Phillips
nile detention and a financial burden
currently live in a location where
ADVICE
on my parents.
they don’t know many people, so
I love my sister, but I’m worried
I don’t think they will want to stay
her habit may lead to an unfortunate
after
we
leave. How should we bring up the
adulthood. She has had counseling in the past
topic
of
our
potential move and discuss it
for numerous issues, but she either lies to her
with them? — Moving in the South
therapist or just sits quietly and says nothing.
Dear Moving: If the opportunities are
Please help me, Abby. — Sticky Fingers
better
elsewhere, then that’s where you
Dear Sticky Fingers: If you do what you
should
go.
This should not have been a deep,
are contemplating and your sister finds out
dark secret. Tell your parents you are consid-
you were the person who turned her in, she
ering another move so they can make plans
will never forgive you for it. I agree that the
of their own. They may want to move to a
girl has serious problems. That’s why I’m
location near you, back to Virginia where
advising you to tell your parents what has
their friends are or to a retirement commu-
been going on and let them handle it. While
nity, where they can form new friendships
my inclination would be to give her a dose
and won’t be entirely dependent upon you
of tough love, it would be better if it comes
and your husband for social contact, as they
from your parents, because they are respon-
apparently were when they moved to Geor-
sible for her.
Dear Abby: We didn’t ask them to, but
gia.
DAYS GONE BY FROM THE EAST OREGONIAN
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BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
Sept. 7, 1921
The office of the Pioneer Employment
Co. in Pendleton has been opened in a room
on Welsh street at the rear of the St. George
Hotel building. J. Applegate is in charge of the
head office and he declares that the company
can fill orders for nearly any kind of labor.
Married men who want to spend the winter
on ranches are particularly plentiful.
50 Years Ago
Sept. 7, 1971
Student behavior in the business district
(of Hermiston) during the first week of school
has improved, was the report of a couple of
merchants at a meeting Tuesday morning
of school administrators, city officials and
chamber of commerce representatives. ... The
noon hour has been the problem in previous
years, it was reported. With more than 600
students at the junior high, near the center of
town, many of them converge on the business
district during the noon hour. ... School Supt.
Richard Scott, Hector and the Police Chief
TODAY IN HISTORY
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
Bob Shannon will work out a list of sugges-
tions for the merchants to use in handling any
student problems during the school year.
25 Years Ago
Sept. 7, 1996
Even at 10, Lauren Berry has devel-
oped some mature views on farm safety.
“Around machinery, you could get your
arms cut off. ... And I heard that you can’t
fall into a pig sty because if you do, they can
be really vicious and kill you almost.” When
Lauren was in fourth grade, her class and
classes from Stanfield Elementary entered
a nationwide coloring contest sponsored by
Farm Safety 4 Just Kids. In June Lauren
learned her drawing of a mama pig suck-
ling her babies safely inside a fenced pen
was selected among thousands of entries.
Lauren said she was inspired to draw the
pig because she knew the seemingly docile
swine can turn dangerous. ... Lauren’s pig
entry will appear in the 1997 Farm Safety
calendar along with drawings from 13 other
youngsters nationwide.
On Sept. 7, 1977, the
Panama Canal treaties, call-
ing for the U.S. to eventu-
ally turn over control of the
waterway to Panama, were
signed in Washington by
President Jimmy Carter and
Panamanian leader Omar
Torrijos.
In 1812, the Battle of
Borodino took place as
French troops clashed with
Russian forces outside
Moscow. (The battle, ulti-
mately won by Russia, was
commemorated by composer
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
with his “1812 Overture.”)
In 1936, rock-and-roll
legend Buddy Holly was
born Charles Hardin Holley
in Lubbock, Texas.
In 1940, Nazi Germany
began its eight-month blitz
of Britain during World War
II with the first air attack on
London.
In 1972, the Interna-
tional Olympic Committee
banned Vince Matthews and
Wayne Collett of the U.S.
from further competition
for talking to each other on
the victory stand in Munich
during the playing of the
“Star-Spangled Banner” after
winning the gold and silver
medals in the 400-meter run.
In 1996, rapper Tupac
Shakur was shot and mortally
wounded on the Las Vegas
Strip; he died six days later.
In 2005, police and
soldiers went house to house
in New Orleans to try to coax
the last stubborn holdouts
into leaving the city shattered
by Hurricane Katrina.
In 2007, Osama bin Laden
appeared in a video for the
first time in three years, tell-
ing Americans they should
convert to Islam if they
wanted the war in Iraq to end.
In 2008, troubled mort-
gage giants Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac were placed in
government conservatorship.
In 2015, Hillary Clinton,
interviewed by The Associ-
ated Press during a campaign
swing through Iowa, said she
did not need to apologize for
using a private email account
and server while at the State
Department because “what I
did was allowed.”
In 2017, one of the most
powerful earthquakes ever
recorded in Mexico struck
off the country’s southern
coast, toppling hundreds of
buildings and killing at least
90 people. (A deadlier quake
would strike central Mexico
nearly two weeks later.)
In 2019, President Donald
Trump said he had canceled
a secret weekend meeting
at Camp David with Tali-
ban and Afghan leaders, just
days before the anniversary
of the Sept. 11 attacks, after
a bombing in Kabul that
killed 12 people, including
an American soldier.
Today’s Birthdays: Jazz
musician Sonny Rollins is
91. Singer Gloria Gaynor is
78. Singer Alfa Anderson
(Chic) is 75. Actor Susan
Blakely is 73. Rock musician
Dennis Thompson (MC5) is
73. Actor Julie Kavner is 71.
Rock singer Chrissie Hynde
(The Pretenders) is 70. Rock
musician Benmont Tench
(Tom Petty & the Heart-
breakers) is 68. Actor Corbin
Bernsen is 67. Actor Michael
Emerson is 67. Pianist
Michael Feinstein is 65.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE